Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

With the experience of buying cloth before, Lin Yinan selected the various types of cloth he needed and also picked out some coarse cloth suitable for making shoe uppers.

Seeing that they bought a lot, the boss not only gave them a discount, but also gave them a lot of scraps of cloth.

Because there were other things to buy, we agreed on a time and had the boss deliver the purchased fabrics to the city gate later.

Lin Yinan and Qian Wu walked to the entrance of the restaurant, and a secret guard came forward.

"Madam, please follow me. Brother Eleven has booked a private room on the second floor."

"What about the rest?"

The secret guard said, "We found the Chen family's steward. We passed by here after buying food, and Eleventh Brother asked us to have dinner together."

When they went up to the private room on the second floor, Yun Shiyi and the secret guards were chatting in low voices. When they saw her coming up, they all stood up and saluted.

"Meet Madam."

"Have you ordered?" Lin Yinan asked.

"Not yet. I'll wait for the Madam to come up before ordering." The secret guard said respectfully.

"Go ahead and order whatever you like. Don't be shy."

Lin Yinan immediately called the waiter and asked everyone to order food.

The secret guards looked at each other, but no one moved.

Seeing that they didn't dare to order, Qianwu took the lead in ordering a few dishes with fermented black beans from the waiter.

She said proudly, "If you want to eat, try our Longtan specialty dishes and see if they are authentic."

Yun Shiyi's eyes darkened. Yun San's sister was too presumptuous, but the sense of respect and inferiority engraved in his bones made him dare not be presumptuous in the slightest.

So, he symbolically ordered two vegetarian dishes.

The other secret guards shook their heads and still didn't dare to order, indicating that they were not picky about food.

Finally, Lin Yinan took the lead and ordered five meat dishes, including charcoal-grilled pork breast fork, lychee kidney, braised rabbit meat, basil fish, and the signature dish strongly recommended by the waiter: He Ye steamed chicken. The staple food was two Hu pancakes and a bowl of rice for each person.

Since we ordered so many dishes, the waiter had to serve a pot of wine according to the restaurant's rules.

Because there were other important things to do in the afternoon, Lin Yinan decided to replace the wine with a vegetable soup.

The restaurant had been well prepared for the market, and the dishes were served quite quickly.

After the dishes were served, everyone sat at a table, and the secret guards were initially very reserved.

When they saw that the lady ate quickly and elegantly without any hesitation, they were stunned for a moment.

Is this still their lady?

Yun Shiren pretended nothing had happened and kicked each of them under the table.

When he looked up, he saw Qian Wu looking at him with a puzzled expression, "Brother Eleven, why did you kick me?"

Yun Shiyi was instantly stunned and tried to defend himself, "No, it's nothing. Haha, I just bumped into it by accident."

The secret guards all lowered their heads and drank the soup in their bowls, not daring to look at Yun Shiyi's petrified face.

Lin Yinan was concentrating on eating. Qianwu had given her a lot of snacks along the way. She wasn't very hungry to begin with, so she quickly finished her meal and put down her chopsticks.

I poured myself a cup of tea and sat by the window, sipping my tea while watching people coming and going below, a prosperous scene.

Soon, Qianwu put down her bowl and chopsticks, pulled a chair over and sat down, resting her chin on her hand and staring at the street in a daze.

After a while, she suddenly pointed at several women on the street and said, "Madam, look! It's Aunt Que and the others!"

Lin Yinan lowered his eyes and saw that Shanque Niang and the others looked anxious.

"Mountain Tits, what should we do? We've searched that street, but still can't find it!!"

Shi Tu Niang was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.

Shanque Niang took a deep breath, tried to calm down, and pretended to be calm, "Don't worry, there must be some alleys we missed, let's go and have a look."

Lin Yinan had sharp ears and sharp eyes, and he could tell from their words that they must have encountered some trouble.

Just as they were about to disperse to look for him, they heard Lin Yinan's cold voice.

"Mother Tit, what happened?"

The titmouse girl had already lost her composure and turned her head to look around.

When Shi Tu Niang looked up, she saw Lin Yinan sitting in the restaurant. She tugged at Shan Que Niang's sleeve and pointed towards the restaurant.

"City Lord Lin is upstairs!"

When Shanque Niang saw Lin Yinan, she seemed to have found her backbone and tears flowed out unconsciously.

"City Lord Lin, the mountain sparrow is missing!"

Lin Yinan was startled, then he took out a silver ingot and handed it to Qianwu, "Qianwu, go pay the bill, I'll go downstairs to take a look."

Before Qianwu could react, she opened the other two windows and jumped down from the building.

Yun Shiyi reacted quickly. When Lin Yinan opened the window, he grabbed two pieces of Hu pancakes and stuffed them into his arms, then followed her steps and jumped out of the window.

"Hurry up, something's happening!"

Looking at Lin Yinan who suddenly appeared in front of her, Shanque Niang didn't care to be surprised, and stepped forward and grabbed Lin Yinan's arm.

"City Lord Lin, let's go shopping separately. There are too many people on one street. When we squeezed out, we found that Shanque and Shitu were gone."

"Did you go back to look for it?"

Shi Tu Niang: "I ran up and down that street three times, but still couldn't find it."

Lin Yinan's heart skipped a beat and he suddenly felt something was wrong.

Shanque and Shitu were already twelve or thirteen years old. They were not the kind of children who did not know the seriousness of the situation. Even if they were separated from their families, they would be able to meet them again after Aunt Shanque and the others had looked for them two or three times.

I haven't encountered them yet, which means something must have happened to them.

Lin Yinan turned his head and looked at Yun Shiyi, "Shiyi, have the secret guards search along several streets in the county town again."

"Yes, my subordinate will go right away."

At this time, the other secret guards had already walked to the first floor with Qianwu.

Yun Shiyi quickly divided the team into small groups and asked them to search in different directions.

"Make sure to find it clearly and don't miss any corner."

Lin Yinan looked at the secret guards who were scattered around searching, then turned to Shanque Niang and Shitu Niang and said, "Aunt Shanque, you guys go to the city gate first and wait. We'll meet up there as soon as we find them."

In the innermost private room on the second floor of the restaurant, Chen Gu was listening to the shopkeeper's work report.

"Wait, tell me in detail about the guests at the big table on the second floor."

The shopkeeper didn't understand the young master's intention, swallowed hard, and said slowly: "The first ones who came were four or five young men in black, and the last one was a lady with her personal maid. They specifically ordered two dishes with fermented black beans. The waiter heard from the maid that they were the specialties of Longtan."

Chen Gu stood up suddenly, "Where are they now?"

"It seems like someone is lost. They left their purchases at the restaurant for safekeeping and said they would come back to pick them up." said the shopkeeper.

"Did you find out what the lost thing looked like?"

"The waiter at the entrance of the restaurant said that they seemed to be two teenagers."

"Is there anything unusual in the city today?"

"No." The shopkeeper recalled, then remembered something and said, "Oh, a group of unfamiliar jugglers and street performers came."

Chen Gu waved to the shopkeeper, "Okay, I understand, you can go down."

After the shopkeeper left, he got up and walked out.

As soon as he walked out of the restaurant, he saw his personal servant walking towards him, sweating profusely.

"Master, many people have gathered at the county government office. They all reported that the child is missing. Now the county magistrate is in a state of panic and wants to seek help from our Chen family."

"What a coincidence?"

Chen Gu murmured.